Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

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Neal Stephenson hacks into the secret histories of nations and the private obsessions of men, decrypting with dazzling virtuosity the forces that have shaped the past century. He weaves together the cracking of the Axis codes during WWII and the quest to establish a free South East Asian 'data haven' for digital information in the present.

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Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

Neal Stephenson hacks into the secret histories of nations and the private obsessions of men, decrypting with dazzling virtuosity the forces that have shaped the past century. He weaves together the cracking of the Axis codes during WWII and the quest to establish a free South East Asian 'data haven' for digital information in the present.
Cryptonomicon, a novel of such ambition and intensity that most modern fiction looks timid and shallow in comparison.. * Guardian *
Cryptonomicon was dauntingly vast: brilliant, splenetic, paranoid and beguiling in roughly equal measures... Stephenson's...thrilling fluency * TLS *
An audaciously conceived tale of code-making and code-breaking * New York Times *
A brilliant patchwork of codebreaking mathematicians and their descendants who are striving to create a data-haven in the Philippines...trust me on this one * Guardian *
Pynchon meets Gibson in the biggest novel of the season * Time Out *
Neal Stephenson is the bestselling author of Reamde, Anathem; the three-volume historical epic the Baroque Cycle (Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World); Cryptonomicon; The Diamond Age; Snow Crash, which was named one of Time magazine's top one hundred all-time best English-language novels; and Zodiac. He lives in Seattle, Washington.
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ISBN 13 9780099410676
ISBN 10 0099410672
Title Cryptonomicon
Author Neal Stephenson
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Cornerstone
Year published 2000-04-27
Number of pages 928
Prizes Short-listed for Arthur C. Clarke Award 2000
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